PROGETTO DI PONTI
Academic Year 2021/2022 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff: Pier Paolo ROSSI
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: ICAR/09 - Structural engineering
Taught classes: 28 hours
Exercise: 30 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: ICAR/09 - Structural engineering
Taught classes: 28 hours
Exercise: 30 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
The course aims to :
- provide knowledge regarding the historical development of bridges and types commonly used in structural engineering
- provide knowledge regarding the construction techniques of bridges
- provide knowledge regarding the actions on bridges
- provide knowledge regarding the main theoretical models applied to the structural analysis of bridges
- provide knowledge regarding the design of bridges, in view of present codes
- provide knowledge regarding the assessment of damage of existing bridges.
Course Structure
Theoretical and practical lessons
Detailed Course Content
Theoretical lessons:
- Historical development of bridges
- Types commonly used in structural engineering: girder bridges, rigid-frame bridges, arch bridges, cable-stayed bridges and suspension bridges
- Parts of the bridge: deck, piers, abutments, bearing devices, expansion joints etc.
- Codes regarding design and construction of bridge
- Loads on bridges
- Design of bridges with composite decks
- Influence lines and infleunce surfaces
- Uniform and non-uniform torsion in bridge decks
- Local instability in steel girders
- Bearing devices
- Design of foundations, piers and abutments
- Seismic design of bridges
- Constructional techniques
- Methods for the assessment of damage of existing bridges
Practical lessons:
- Design of bridges with composite steel-concrete decks (reinforced concrete slab, longitudinal steel girder, tranverse beams, bearing devices and piers)
Textbook Information
- Ioannis Vayas, Aristidis Iliopoulos. Design of composite steel concrete braidges to Eurocodes. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN: 978-1-4665-5744-4
- Raithel Aldo- Costruzioni di Ponti-Liguori Editore-Napoli 1970
- Raithel Aldo.Ponti a travata - volume primo -Liguori Editore-Napoli 1978
- Petrangeli Mario Paolo. Progettazione e Costruzione di Ponti-Masson
- Priestley M. J. N., Seible F., Calvi G. M. Seismic Design and Retrofit of Bridges; John Wiley & Sons; 1996. ISBN: 978-0-471-57998-4
- Normative Tecniche in vigore (D.M.14/01/2008 e ss.mm.ii, Circolare 2/2/2009, Eurocodici)